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MIT Press:
The Parallax View
Slavoj Zizek
Published on
February 17, 2006
Table of Contents and Sample ChaptersThe Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Zizek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism.
"If you liked Badiou,
you'll love 'Zizek!'."
